The performance of multilevel growth curve models under an autoregressive moving average process

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-284

  Murphy, Daniel ^a   Pituch, Keenan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance misspecification; Growth curve analysis; Multilevel model; Performance assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649615956     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JEXE.77.3.255-284     Document Type: Article

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